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Engineers Nominated By the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gabriela Lyvers, P.E. Lyvers has applied her risk and reliability knowledge and skills to investment studies, such as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway Study. In addition, she has served on the Lakes and Rivers Division Emerging Leaders Focus Group, which provides insight, analysis, and assessment of ongoing Division initiatives to the Division Commander and Division Staff. Curtis Miller, P.E. In addition, Miller has developed a process to composite ice-effected and open water river stages into a single model for flood plain and floodway delineation. This process is ground-breaking and has the potential to affect flood plain management decision making in colder climates for years to come. Miller also is a mentor in the Society of American Military Engineers Omaha Post’s Student Initiative Mentoring Program. In this role, he has introduced high school and middle school students to the engineering and architectural professions, by assisting the students in solving real-world engineering and construction problems. Joseph Roan, E.I.T. Mr. Roan has served as secretary of the Society of American Military Engineers’ Blue Ridge Post and has helped raise more than $5,000 for scholarships to local high school students. He also is a reservist in the U.S. Air Force 316th Civil Engineering Squadron. Matthew Turner, P.E. Turner also has prepared plans and specifications for several other important projects in the Memphis District, most notably the Dutchtown Levee project, which will provide much-needed flood control protection to the people of Dutchtown, Missouri. Turner recently graduated from the yearlong Memphis District Leadership Development Program. « BACK |
Gabriela Lyvers, P.E., a structural engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, in Kentucky, has provided leadership to the critical National Levee and Dam Safety Program’s efforts to develop methods and tools for assessing project risk. She has collaborated with experts from the Corps’ Engineering Risk and Reliability Directory of Expertise and other agencies to develop proper methodologies for incorporating risk and reliability theory into the assessment of levees and dams. She also has participated in the national team that is creating the spreadsheet-based tools necessary to apply these methodologies to project site assessments and has been involved in the testing of these tools at pilot projects.
Curtis Miller, P.E., a hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, in Nebraska, has advanced the field of hydraulic engineering by assisting in field testing a number of new numerical models that are being developed through the Corps’ Engineering Research and Development Center. Through his efforts, Miller has enabled the developers of these models to advance at a greater pace, which has led to and will continue to lead to faster deployment of new and better models for the profession at large.
Joseph Roan, E.I.T., a mechanical design engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Programs Center (TAC) in Winchester, Virginia, provides support for the Global War on Terrorism, working long hours and weekends to provide reachback assistance to the Gulf Region Division and Afghanistan Engineer District. He has designed high-quality mechanical systems for numerous facilities, such as National Army and Police Compounds in Afghanistan, a Detainee Interrogation Facility in Iraq, a Fleet Recreation Center in Bahrain, and Special Operations Facilities in Qatar. He also has accepted numerous assignments to provide extensive quality assurance support to TAC field offices overseas.
Matthew Turner, P.E., a civil engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, in Tennessee, has played an integral part in the successful contract award of the nearly $4 million Lower Obion Ecosystem Restoration project. This project was a collaboration with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and includes the critically important restoration of approximately 1,500 acres of wetlands and waterfowl habitat. Turner prepared plans and specifications for the project, as well as addressed design issues related to regulatory, cultural resources, and endangered species clearances.
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